Darshan Desai, Group Program Manager, PowerApps, lunes, 25 de septiembre de 2017

At Ignite 2017 this week, we’ll showcase a set of new capabilities and integrations between PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 that make it easy for any business user familiar with InfoPath forms, Access databases or SharePoint to build apps that extend and automate their business processes. This post provides a summary of the key new capabilities.

Darshan Desai, Group Program Manager, PowerApps, miércoles, 20 de septiembre de 2017

Microsoft Ignite kicks off at Orlando next week. We have a number of sessions about PowerApps and Flow, where we will showcase new capabilities, do deep dives into advanced topics, and share customer stories. If you are attending Ignite, we’d love to meet you to get your feedback and answer any questions. Here is a summary the sessions for PowerApps and Flow.

Editing the look and feel of apps can seem like a time-consuming task. However, with some easy tips on linking controls redesigning apps can be incredibily easy. Linking controls empowers app development and makes it easy to rebrand for multiple customers.

We are pleased to announce the release of a new community forum group focused on Best Practices in App Building. This new section of the community will focus on the three primary areas for successful app building: Data, Build, and Design. We are sure this will help app-makers to optimize the success of their apps as well as give all community experts an opportunity to showcase best practices and lessons learned. We are also developing badges, swag rewards, as well as special ‘insider’ advantages for contributing members who add value, and who help others to succeed using PowerApps.

Recently I volunteered to create a calendar app that we could use to share events across our organization, especially in the areas of Diversity and Inclusion. The target goal was to enable us to broadly share relevant events, but to allow consumers of the app to select ‘which’ events they would like added to their calendars. This was a really fun project that I was able to finish on a plane flight from DC to Seattle. Learn how I expedited this app with a little bit of planning...

We are excited to bring a host of PowerApps Studio capabilities to make authoring apps faster and powerful in the latest release (version 2.0.660). Thank you for all the feedback, here are some of the capabilities in this release to try out.

You said it's hard to build end-to-end views of your Dynamics 365 data. We heard you. Data Integrator and Prospect to Cash scenarios are now Generally Available in the Common Data Service to make it easy for you and your users to build your next app!